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Rana takes down Pakistan’s new look batting order
🏏 Cricket Roundup: Rana runs riot, SKY on IND’s win, and J&K’s sustainable future.
The Cricket Roundup
BAN beat PAK by 8 wickets, & NZ-W beat ZIM by 200 runs.
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🇵🇰🇧🇩 | Mohammad Isam on Nahid Rana’s 5-24 that decimated PAK.
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🇮🇳 | Devendra Pandey talks to Suryakumar Yadav about his and IND’s 18-month journey, Vijay Tagore talks to coach Sitanshu Kotak about changing the batting lineup halfway through the WC, 📊 S Rajesh analyses Sanju Samson’s high control-high intent play, & Sidharth Monga calls IND the best T20 side ever.
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Shayan Acharya talks to BCCI president Mithun Manhas about turning Jammu & Kashmir’s Ranji Trophy win into sustainable growth.
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Mrinal Asija talks to the latest AUS teen prodigy Lucy Finn about her breakout, while Simon Burnton reports on the growth of Women’s cricket in Brazil.
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Eddie Fitzgibbon on why standardised umpiring is a vital part of cricket’s economic growth.
The rabidity of India’s star culture
📚 Best Features: Watching fans harass Dhoni on a plane.
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“The Plane Ride from Hell”
✍️ Aditya Iyer on watching the depravity of demands that everyday fans placed on MS Dhoni on a recent commercial flight.
🗞️ Quick News: The Hundred auction, the IPL schedule, & the ICC’s WC revenue.
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💯 | The Women’s Hundred auction happened yesterday. Matt Roller on the paradigm shift that it created, Stephan Shemilt on how cricketers became amongst the highest paid UK sportswomen overnight, & Andy Bull notices that the auction staff were still largely male for a Women’s sport.
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🏆 | The IPL has released their schedule for the first 20 games, & Firoz Mirza/Swaroop Swaminathan report on the gas needs for the tournament as Iranian conflict shows no sign of abating.
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🇧🇩 | The inaugural Women’s BPL has been pushed back due to lack of sponsor demand, while the BAN government will create a committee to investigate the BCB’s election last year.
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💰 | Kanchan Srivastava reports that the ICC World Cup made INR 1,500 crore (~$183.45M) from advertisements, & 🔒 Lord’s has ended their alliance with craft brewery BrewDog after they were bought out by a cannabis company.
Who got the best deals?
📺 A/V: Reacting to The Hundred auction buys.
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“Auction Reaction”
🎤 Katya Witney & Yas Rana discuss the purchases at the Women’s Hundred auction. [Apple/Spotify]
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